Powerful Anti-Christian Group Fires 25% of Staff
Critics and victims of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) may have danced a jig recently when it was announced that the hard-left group had fired 25% of its staff, totaling 60 staff members. Founded to help poor blacks in the South, in recent years, SPLC is best known for its annual hate list of pro-life and pro-family groups who have publicly opposed the homosexual/trans agenda. SPLC also goes after groups opposed to open borders and those groups it has deemed as anti-Islamic. Mainstream pro-life and pro-family groups labeled by SPLC include Alliance Defending Freedom, the Family Research Institute, the Ruth Institute, the American College of Pediatricians, Do No Harm, Family Watch International, and the World Congress of Families.
SPLC is highly controversial. Charity Navigator rates it F for its hoarding of donor funds, which now total close to a billion dollars. SPLC raises upward of $100 million per year. An assassin used its list several years ago to target the Family Research Council office. Carnage was only avoided by the quick actions of a brave security guard. SPLC founder Morris Dees resigned a few years ago for what some say was sexual harassment and racism. Dees’s wife divorced him years ago and charged him with trying to sexually molest her young daughter from a previous marriage. SPLC’s motivations have been called into question. A top executive of SPLC is on video telling donors that SPLC is in the business of putting its political opponents “out of business.”
Given its huge coffers, it is hard to imagine why the group decided to shed 60 staffers. Fired staff say many of them were members of a recently formed union, and recriminations abound. SPLC has been silent about the rash of Christian churches burned or vandalized since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
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